Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- In defense of quantitative approaches -- Overview of the volume -- References -- I. Phonological variation and leveling -- Introduction -- References -- Perception and production in French dialect leveling -- Introduction: definition of leveling -- Perceptions of leveling -- Dialect leveling in the production of French -- Summary and concluding remarks -- References -- The sociolinguistic relevance of regional categories -- Introduction -- Regional French in Belgium and standardization -- Word-final consonant devoicing: sociolinguistic and phonetic perspectives -- Data collection and analysis -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Prosodic style-shifting as audience design -- Introduction -- Research questions -- Preliminary observations -- Methods -- Results -- Summary and conclusion -- References -- The immigrant factor in phonological leveling -- Immigration and vernacular French -- The Maghrebians in Paris, Grenoble and Marseille -- Lille -- Linguistic and sociolinguistic comparison of 1995 and 2005 corpora -- Conclusion -- References -- A prototype-theoretic model of Southern French -- Introduction -- The significance of prototype theory for the linguistics of varieties -- Methodology -- Correlation of perception and production data -- Summary and discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- The law of position revisited -- Introduction -- The presence of two norms: Reference French vs. Southern French -- Dialect contact and leveling -- Methodology -- Results -- Conclusion -- References -- II. Stylistic and syntactic variation -- Introduction -- References -- Variation in first and second language French -- Introduction -- Looking at variation -- Data -- Results -- Discussion.

Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- French preadolescents' perceptions of stylistic variation -- Introduction -- Context of the study, problems addressed and hypotheses -- Methodology for data collection and analysis: perceptions of stylistic variation collected in individual interviews -- Results: what are the preadolescents' perceptions about stylistic variation and how do social factors influence these perceptions? -- Analysis of the open question in the experimental situation: confirmation of the social diversity influence in preadolescents' declared perceptions of variation -- Some comments on style in recordings made under natural conditions: highlighting the 'eux / nous' ('them / us') issue -- Conclusion -- Transcription conventions -- References -- Sociolinguistic variation in African French -- Introduction -- French in Ivory Coast: Sociolinguistic profile -- French in Ivory Coast: A general linguistic description -- The relative in Ivorian French: a morphosyntactic description -- Inter-, intra- and extrasystemic motivations -- Conclusion -- References -- Register variation in the nonstandarduse of non-finite forms -- Introduction / General considerations -- Participles and gerunds: open to register variation -- Infinitives: not prone to register variation -- Towards a hybridization of the spoken and written codes? -- Conclusion -- References -- III. Lexical variation and semantic change -- Introduction -- References -- Discourse markers and regional variation in French -- Introduction to the Field -- Markers which Derive from Perception/Cognition Verbs, and the Case of Coudon in Quebec French -- Markers derived from temporal/consecutive items, and the case of pis in Quebec French -- Overall conclusion -- References -- Sociolinguistic factorsand the pragmaticalization of bonin contemporary spoken French -- Introduction.

Qualitative and quantitative analysis of bon in the CRFP, with some references to the ESLO (1968) Corpus and the Beeching (1988) Corpus -- Conclusion -- References -- From 'luck' to 'wealth' -- Introduction -- The semantic change of fortuné in Modern French: from 'happy' to 'rich' -- The proscription of the modern use of fortuné in dictionaries -- Fortuné's prevailing sense and its stylistic redistribution in contemporary French -- The euphemistic use of fortuné -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Index -- The series IMPACT: Studies in language and society.